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A writing group for any adult; meets on the 2nd Mon and the 4th Wed of each month to share responses to writing assignments, offer encouragement and do impromptu writing. Be a satellite member and still get the benefits! Message me for more details!
Website: http://gaslightwriters.synthasite.com
Location: Jeffersontown, Kentucky, USA
Members: 11
Latest Activity: Aug 9
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Reading Work Out Loud 2 Replies
Started by Patti McQuillen. Last reply by Lydia Nolan Feb. 28, 2008.
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Comment by Sheryl Farmer-Storrie on August 9, 2009 at 8:29am - I thought you were local too! Now I know where you get the name! I live in louisville too. Love the Gaslight Festival! This is good!
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Comment by Sheryl Farmer-Storrie on August 8, 2009 at 10:45am
- Working out loud sound like a place for me. I still have not found a group that interacts in a way that helps and encourages each other. I hope yours does!
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Comment by Patti McQuillen on October 8, 2008 at 10:23am
- I encourage all members to check out the website for the latest details about the group. I am looking for updates on all members, regardless of where you live. Send me writing samples, photos (JPEG), and other interesting tidbits I can use on the site!
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Comment by Likai Chen on March 27, 2008 at 4:54am - Hi, I'm Mr. Likai Chen (or: according to Chinese tradition spelled: Chern Likai, as Chen is my family name. ) and I'm a freelance author writing juvenile fiction books and children's storybooks in English. I live in China. My first juvenile fiction book, Shuisheng the Mallard, published by www.millcreekpress.com in Salt Lake City, which is on sale on amazon, is a long story about a group of mild ducks in China flying to the south for the coming winter. They meet what dangers and difficultiies on the way? How about their journey?What kind of Chinese folk tales I put into the story? Also want to see the many illustrations I made for the book? Go to amazon and Mill Creek Press!
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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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